Global Dossier

The Global Dossier is an online public service launched in June 2014 by the five "IP5" offices, i.e. the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), the State Intellectual Property Office of China (SIPO) and the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), to offer an integrated access to the respective "file wrappers", free of charge and with automatic machine translations to English.[1] A file wrapper, also called "public file", contains documents, including the search reports, office actions and correspondence between the applicant and the patent office, relating to a particular patent application. The file wrapper therefore provides the file history of a patent application. The EPO, SIPO, JPO and KIPO file wrappers are already available, as of June 2015, and the USPTO file wrappers are scheduled to be available "by the second half of 2015".[1]

The Global Dossier is available via the European Patent Register and espacenet.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Global Dossier – file wrappers from the EPO, SIPO, JPO and KIPO all in one place" (PDF). Patent Information News. European Patent Office (EPO) (2/2015): 1–2. June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Global dossier available in Espacenet". EPO. 24 October 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2015.

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